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From: Vinzent Hoefler <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Compiler error: 'Expect procedure name in procedure call'
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 22:40:41 +0100
Date: 2002-11-04T22:40:41+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3dc6e966_1@news.bluewin.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 445cd6bf.0211041157.1537dfd5@posting.google.com

j_del_strother@hotmail.com (Jon) wrote:

>Which leads on to my next question...
>Can you call a function & ignore its return value?  I'm using a lot of
>Win32 calls, all of which are written as functions rather than
>procedures, and I'm getting a huge mess of useless temporary variables
>just to allow me to call the functions.

Are you *sure*, you won't have to check the function result?

Perhaps you could use a declare block around the "function" call with
a local variable to store the result. The optimizer should be easily
able to remove this reference.


Vinzent.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-04 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-04 15:05 Compiler error: 'Expect procedure name in procedure call' Jon
2002-11-04 15:35 ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-04 19:57   ` Jon
2002-11-04 20:35     ` Björn Lundin
2002-11-04 20:53       ` Björn Lundin
2002-11-04 20:48     ` Jim Rogers
2002-11-04 21:08       ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-05 22:15         ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-11-05 20:51       ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-06 15:06         ` Ted Dennison
2002-11-04 21:40     ` Vinzent Hoefler [this message]
2002-11-05  9:29       ` Jon
2002-11-05  9:55         ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-11-06 23:29         ` Randy Brukardt
2002-11-05 14:22     ` Ted Dennison
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